RARE ORIG. EXHIBIT POSTER! "WHAAM!" 1967 LICHTENSTEIN #3M682 TATE GALLERY

Description: ROY LICHTENSTEINRoy LichtensteinLichtenstein in 1967BornRoy Fox Lichtenstein October 27, 1923 New York City, U.S.DiedSeptember 29, 1997 (aged 73) New York City, U.S.EducationTimothy Dwight SchoolAlma materOhio State UniversityKnown forPainting, sculptureMovementPop artSpousesIsabel Wilson (1949–1965; divorced; 2 children inc. Mitchell)Dorothy Herzka (m. 1968)Patron(s)Gunter Sachs (1923 - 1997) "WHAAM!" , 1963 "PUBLISHED BY THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON"."REPRODUCED AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITIAN BY LAUTREC PHOTO LITHO LTD, LEEDS 3M682" "IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN TATE GALLERY ONLY HAD 250 PRINTED". THE MOST POPULAR IMAGE BY LICHTENSTEIN.I HAVE LISTED THIS AT A PRICE TO MOVE. I PURCHASED IT FROM A DEALER IN LOS ANGELES BACK IN THE 1970'S. IT HAS BEEN IN STORAGE UNTIL NOW. CONDITION IS EXCELLENT WITH ONLY SLIGHT (VERY SMALL) BUMPS TO THE CORNERS. I JUST NOTICED A VERY SMALL TEAR IN THE UPPER PORTION OF THE PLANE SHOOTING, SHOULD COVER UP NICELY WITH FRAME. SEE IMAGES. COLORS ARE VIBRANT, LINES AND DOTS ARE CLEAN. A WELCOME ADDITION TO ANYONES COLLECTION. Biography From his studio in New York City, Roy Lichtenstein did cartoon inspired paintings that helped launch the Pop Art movement. He was unique in that he developed a new visual language in an avant-garde style that was disruptive to viewers and yet was accessible and popular with them. He also did innovative art work that incorporated many late 20th-century movements and addressed a number of social issues.His thirty-five year career of public recognition was celebrated in 1993-94 by curators of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York with a large scale retrospective of his work.He was born in Manhattan and went to high school there. By age 14, he was taking art classes at the Parsons School of Design and also studied briefly with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in 1939. He then attended Ohio State University where his major influence was Hoyt Sherman, whose figure-ground relationships inspired Lichtenstein's treatment of cliche subjects.In 1943, he was drafted into the Army and served in Europe and then returned to Ohio State, completing his BFA and MFA and then teaching at that campus. From Cleveland, Ohio, he made frequent trips to New York and started to exhibit there in 1949. In the 1950s, he used various techniques of Abstract Expressionism, did figurative work, and like many of his neration, began employing pop art images. But he was searching for a style.In 1957, he left Cleveland to teach in Oswego, New York, and in 1961, he began teaching at Rutgers University, where one of his colleagues, Allan Kaprow, used cartoon figures. Through Kaprow, he met many renegade New York artists including Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine; it was a circuitous return to the New York from where he had a long journey.In 1962, he had a landmark exhibition at the Castelli Gallery that showed enlarged depictions of advertisements and comic strip images. In fact, it was gallery owner Leo Castelli who, as a major promoter of the contemporary art scene, was a key person in launching his career.Although Lichtenstein's pop paintings had widespread popular acceptance, he began in 1965 to do Abstract Expressionism, but in contrast to others in that style, he did work that was hard and static. In the 1990s, he did large-scale abstract interiors, and he also worked in ceramics and enamelled steel.Throughout his career, he appeared in many documentary films and did posters for entertainments including Bill Clinton's United States presidential campaign.Lichtenstein's murals are in Dusseldorf, Germany; Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York City. He died unexpectedly on September 30, 1997 from viral pneumonia, having worked until the time of his death.Sources include:Art in America, "Roy Lichtenstein, 1923-1997"Art in America, "Lichtenstein: Seeing Is Believing", Roni FeinsteinMichael David Zellman, 300 Years of American ArtBiography Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27, 1923. His father, Milton, was a real estate broker and his mother was a homemaker. He grew up across Central Park from the Guggenheim Museum. He attended the Franklin School for Boys, graduating in 1940. He studied under American Social Realist painter Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League and attended Ohio State University from 1940 through 1943. He returned there in 1946 after having served in the armed services in Europe; he received his Masters in Fine Arts in 1949. He taught at Ohio State University until 1951; was Assistant Professor at New York State University at Oswego and at Rutgers University in New Jersey until 1953.Lichtenstein's greatest successes came with Pop Art. He utilized blown-up comic strips, including the dots necessary in commercial printing (Benday dots) and the captions, which accompany comic strips. He has studied drawing and painting and knew how to turn out the same kinds of works that other painters did. His career is a contemporary inventory of modern art historical styles: Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Neo-Plasticism, Futurism, Expressionism, all leading to the Abstract Expressionism on which he founded his own Pop work.When he was at Rutgers, he fell into a milieu that would galvanize the direction of his art. He met Allan Kaprow and other artists, namely Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, George Segal and Bob Whitman, whose audience-participation performances came to be called Happenings. Unlike many other artists, he had no idea what to do with a movie or play, but he did enjoy what other people did with their Happenings.In 1949, he married Isabel Wilson. They had two sons, David Hoyt and Mitchell Wilson. They were divorced in 1965. In 1968 he married Dorothy Herzka.Lichtenstein died of pneumonia on Monday, September 29, 1997.Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.Sources include:Obituary in Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, September 30, 1997"A Few Good Colors Are Plenty" by Susan Morgan, Los Angeles Times Calendar Section, Sunday, January 30, 1994"Wham! Blam! Pow! Roy Lichtenstein!" by Diane Waldman in ARTnews, November 1993From the internet, artchive.comArticle by Peter Plagens in Newsweek Magazine, October 15, 1993Biography Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27, 1923, the son of real estate broker Milton and homemaker-gifted pianist Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. He grew up under no specific artistic influence - neither at home nor at school. But by the age of 14, Lichtenstein attended a painting class at Parson's School of Design every Saturday morning. In 1939 he studied at the Art Students League in New York and the following year at Ohio State University.In 1943 his education was interrupted by three years of army service, during which he drew up maps for planned troop movements across Germany during World War II. Lichtenstein received his BFA degree from Ohio State University in 1946 and MFA degree in 1949 then began a period of working in (semi) Abstract Expressionism—the predominant art movement of the time.He taught at Ohio State University until 1951 when he moved to Cleveland, OH to work as an engineering draftsman to support his growing family. He would later take teaching positions at New York State University and then Rutgers University in the early 1960s where he would meet artists Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg and George Segal who were experimenting with different kinds of art based on everyday life—known as Pop Art.The drastic change in Lichtenstein's career came with his first painting in the style of a comic strip featuring Mickey Mouse. The initial stimulus is said to have come from one of his young children who pointed to an illustration of the famed mouse in a children's book and challenged "I bet you can't paint as good as that."Like other Pop artists, Lichtenstein adopted the images of commercial art but he did so in a highly distinctive manner. Inspired by the comic strips, he worked in a massive scale using stencils which produced rows of dots (benday dots) making the works look mass produced. One of his peculiarities was that he did not want his brush strokes visible—intentionally making the work look machine made.In 1961 he visited Andy WarholRoy Lichtenstein produced a number of graphic prints for which he used different techniques: lithographs, screenprints, etchings and woodcuts, sometimes combining multiple techniques in one print. In 1994 a Lichtenstein print retrospective opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and later traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and to the Dallas Art Museum. The show coincided with the release of 'The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne' by Mary Lee Corlett. The National Gallery in Washington, D.C. would become the largest repository of Lichtenstein's prints when the artist gifted 154 prints from 1948-1993 and two books to the institution.Roy Lichtenstein died of pneumonia on September 29, 1997 at New York University Medical Center. Twice married, he was survived by his wife, Dorothy, whom he wed in 1968, and by his sons, David and Mitchell, from his first marriage.QUOTE:"You know I get ideas like when I'm waking up in the morning or something like that and I kind of sometimes scribble them down, and then when I wake up, I realize that there's absolutely no way to create a visual counterpart of what I thought of that makes any sense." at the Factory where he saw the artist's comic strip and consumer products paintings. The next year he had his first one man show at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York where it was a sold-out success enabling him to give up teaching the following year and devote himself entirely to painting. Through Castelli, Lichtenstein met fellow artists Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz and Jasper Johns and would eventually exhibit repeatedly with Warhol, Rosenquist, Dine, Rauschenberg and Johns among others. In 1963 he created his iconic imagery of D.C. Comics' Girls' Romances and Secret Hearts and exhibited at Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Select Museum Collections:National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCWalker Art Center, MinneapolisGuggenheim Museum, New YorkTate Modern, LondonMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkHirshhorn Museum, Washington, DCNational Galleries of Scotland, EdinburghNorton Simon Museum, PasadenaNational Gallery of Australia, CanberraBroad Art Foundation, Los Angeles please ask all questions before bidding. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail. if possible, the work will be gently rolled and put into a tube for shipping. we take pride in our care of your art purchase.

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